In the latest of a large amount of features on the Xbox Live Arcade, sister site Gamasutra has given Jamie Fristrom from Torpex Games the chance to say his piece with a postmortem report on their first game - the "best co-op game ever" and first published XNA game Schizoid.

It's four pages of very interesting discussion on the good and bad side of the XNA framework, getting a start up company off the ground, and working completely independent from a publisher.

This quote from the article was about dealing with the single player mode of the "most co-op game ever" - and how games just might not be ready for it just yet.

Although we gave a nod to the single-player with our bot and uber modes, for the most part, we willfully ignored that conventional wisdom, hoping the sacred cow would make good steaks -- surely, we thought, Xbox Live Arcade, where most of its users are already hardcore and wired, is a place where the no-multiplayer-only rule can be broken.

Well, we can tell from the leaderboards that this isn't the case -- far more people are playing single-player than online.

It's surprising, since online co-op is often the number one feature hardcore gamers ask for. In our own belated, informal polling we've discovered that most people don't play co-op Xbox games over the internet.

Of potential players, some don't play online at all; some don't have headsets; some are perfectly willing to deathmatch with strangers but playing co-op with a stranger "feels weird"; with XBLA online populations being what they are, it can take several minutes for someone to show up for a match, and people don't want to wait that long.

Click the link below and read the entire postmortem, it's really some fascinating rhetoric when it comes to working on the Xbox Live Arcade.

Source: Gamasutra - Postmortem: Torpex Games' Schizoid